Perhaps the most galling part of this is Bondiâs defense of her defense of Floridaâs marriage ban by saying she was just doing what 69% of the voters wanted.
Someone in her position sometimes has to make decisions. And as Utahâs Lieutenant Governor has just shown, sometimes itâs okay for someone in a political position to admit theyâve made a mistake.
From what Iâve heard, this champion of family values is now working on marriage #3.
Funny how the States Rights-ers always want to remove civil rights for their State, and never use that power protect citizens.
LOVE LOVE LOVE how Anderson handled Bondi!!! BRAVOOOOOO
Itâs always the ones that have neglected one of the bigger rules of the Bible (like the 10 Commandments) in favor of lecturing the remainder of the country about one of the rule codicils (Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy).
Let he (or she) who is without sin cast the first stone.
love it. sheâs using âthe will of the votersâ and âitâs my job as AG whether i like it or notâ to defend her bigotry like some people use the bible for it. âitâs not me, itâs the bible!â
Small point, but as a nurseâs kid I feel obliged to make it every time this comes up: anyone can visit you in the hospital at pretty much any time.
They donât care who visits you. They donât care how long you stay. Theyâll usually bring in a cot if you want to sleep there. So whenever you hear, âsorry, itâs family only,â or, âvisiting hours are over,â itâs because they are invoking a time-honored way to get rowdy, loud, or disruptive people to leave.
There are plenty of rights rolled up in marriage to be worth fighting for, but âimagine not being able to visit your loved on in the hospitalâ is a ridiculous appeal.
No, they use that power to only protect the ârightâ citizens.
Which shows why the Feds have to come in to make sure everyone gets the same rights.
If youâre critically injured, in a coma, and didnât sign an ironclad medical power of attorney prior to being injured, youâre at the good graces of the hospital staff and not someone who cares for you. Even then youâre intentions may be overridden by zealous hospital staff that seeks to enforce a traditional family unit mentality.
No fucking quarter.
Youâre relying on their good graces anyway. If youâre a spouse but in the way, theyâre still going to kick you out (âsorry, visiting hoursâ). Meanwhile if you can tell them your unconscious loverâs allergies, they will not give a damn how serious your relationship is. Believe me, however unique and complicate you think your relationship is, they have seen it many, many times.
And again I say: there are legal benefits to marriage worth fighting for, but hospital visits are about as orthogonal to them as you can get. The entire argument is based on a myth of how hospitals worked in the 1940s.
I really wish Pam Bondi would just climb back into the anal fissure in Governor Rick Scottâs reptilian ass that she originally burst out of.
Never met a pro gun law she didnât love - argued gay marriage would harm family values while shacking up with a guy after her 2nd divorce - used every bullshit scare tactic in the book to keep medical marijuana out of the hands of sick kids⌠and yet⌠and yet⌠she found the time to NOT investigate Trump U. just days after her reelection campaign received $25,000 from Drumpf himself.
Makes my skin crawl, she does.
An honestly, is that even something that straight people do as well as the gays?
When you say âas well asâ do you mean in addition to or with the same degree of skill?
Because to the first I have to say yes but to the secondâŚfurther study may be needed.
How much choice did she have in the matter? Iâm trying to understand the difference between this, and attacking defense attorneys for defending objectively reprehensible people (e.g. Clarence Darrow for Leopold & Loeb). She seems to be emphasizing that she was fighting in court for the will of the voters, which I figure was her job (glad as I am that the SCOTUS subsequently overruled those voters).
Iâm not a fan of her.
If she wants to say she was just defending the law in court, okay fine, but Iâm pretty sure thereâs no rule that says you have to appeal a ruling all the way up the chain until thereâs nowhere else to go. You donât fight to the SCOTUS hoping to lose the whole way there. Itâs perfectly acceptable to just accept the lower courtâs ruling. You donât even have to defend it in the first place if you really disagree with it - if the state wanted to pursue the appeal, they could have hired other counsel. Her defense is nothing but using the cover of public opinion to hide her own bigotry.
I was actually more disgusted that, when asked what sheâd done in the past to support the LGBT community, she cited a piece of clipart posted to her website after the shooting, followed by nonstop âall lives matterâ-style attempts to minimize the fact that LGBT people were the ones who were killed (âweâre talking about human beingsâ - yes, LGBT ones, you git). Itâs such naked opportunism that the FCC should fine her for indecent exposure.
Not to mention that she defended the unconstitutional attempt to drug test all people trying to qualify for government assistance that was struck down by the court.
As Newt Gingrich would say, âmarriage is the sacred union between a man and his third wife - the one he cheated with on his 2nd wife who he married after he cheated with her on his first wife who had cancer at the time.â
